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My InterpretationMaybe not my favorite SKM song, but definitely Top 3. So haunting...
The meaning is obvious, I think: it's a story about watching a heroin addict slowly die. The title, "soot into her lungs" (I guess she was smoking it, or maybe "lungs" is just a metaphor), "like poison, it succumbs her", and all of the obvious death references.
The arrangement is just so beautiful: the way the distant bass drum comes in toward the end, then the light backing vocals.

General CommentI think this is specifically describing the event that's more emotionally described in Harper Road (I love how the songs on this album are connected!). This is right before her death, as whatever the disease is, "like poison it succumbs her." All of the constricting, killing images in this are connected with that feeling of unpreventable loss. And then, when it finally does happen, it haunts him and the sadness sets in. God this is a sad song. I like Harper Road's version of the event a little better, but this is more real and from a different perspective.

General Commenti like what i have read thus far, and i think that this may be talking about nature (?)
we see that it is talking about a woman, mother nature. and then i read that someone mentioned war. Then i thought that he/she held a good point, that war does kill people but if it does not kill humans in time it will kill the planet. I think this song is about the end of Nature as a whole, and then the end of everything else on the Earth. This means that the constricting and choking could be the stealing of resources, resulting in the depletion of the inside of the Earth (natural resources being used up).
The crying relates to rain, as they are tears of nature. The stopping of the tears meaning that there will be no reason to cry. During the destruction of nature there will be death, war, loss, and nothing more. In a world so strongly consumed by an individual's own "dog eat dog" ways or even in the simplest discriminative ways, it is likely that humans will go to war for what are easily insignificant reasons.
(we don't all look a people and see humans but some of us see, Pakistanis, blacks, Asians, whites. all of that is truly insignificant... an easy concept that is viewed as a hard concept. Humans are nothing more than humans, and that is how it is for everyone.)
Thus, this song may be about an overindulgent race destroying everything in their path to create what they want and not what they need. This is the ultimate destruction, going beyond self-destruction but also global destruction)

General Commenti like what i have read thus far, and i think that this may be talking about nature (?)
we see that it is talking about a woman, mother nature. and then i read that someone mentioned war. Then i thought that he/she held a good point, that war does kill people but if it does not kill humans in time it will kill the planet. I think this song is about the end of Nature as a whole, and then the end of everything else on the Earth. This means that the constricting and choking could be the stealing of resources, resulting in the depletion of the inside of the Earth (natural resources being used up).
The crying relates to rain, as they are tears of nature. The stopping of the tears meaning that there will be no reason to cry. During the destruction of nature there will be death, war, loss, and nothing more. In a world so strongly consumed by an individual's own "dog eat dog" ways or even in the simplest discriminative ways, it is likely that humans will go to war for what are easily insignificant reasons.
(we don't all look a people and see humans but some of us see, Pakistanis, blacks, Asians, whites. all of that is truly insignificant... an easy concept that is viewed as a hard concept. Humans are nothing more than humans, and that is how it is for everyone.)
Thus, this song may be about an overindulgent race destroying everything in their path to create what they want and not what they need. This is the ultimate destruction, going beyond self-destruction but also global destruction)

General Commenti like what i have read thus far, and i think that this may be talking about nature (?)
we see that it is talking about a woman, mother nature. and then i read that someone mentioned war. Then i thought that he/she held a good point, that war does kill people but if it does not kill humans in time it will kill the planet. I think this song is about the end of Nature as a whole, and then the end of everything else on the Earth. This means that the constricting and choking could be the stealing of resources, resulting in the depletion of the inside of the Earth (natural resources being used up).
The crying relates to rain, as they are tears of nature. The stopping of the tears meaning that there will be no reason to cry. During the destruction of nature there will be death, war, loss, and nothing more. In a world so strongly consumed by an individual's own "dog eat dog" ways or even in the simplest discriminative ways, it is likely that humans will go to war for what are easily insignificant reasons.
(we don't all look a people and see humans but some of us see, Pakistanis, blacks, Asians, whites. all of that is truly insignificant... an easy concept that is viewed as a hard concept. Humans are nothing more than humans, and that is how it is for everyone.)
Thus, this song may be about an overindulgent race destroying everything in their path to create what they want and not what they need. This is the ultimate destruction, going beyond self-destruction but also global destruction)

Song Meaningi like what i have read thus far, and i think that this may be talking about nature (?)
we see that it is talking about a woman, mother nature. and then i read that someone mentioned war. Then i thought that he/she held a good point, that war does kill people but if it does not kill humans in time it will kill the planet. I think this song is about the end of Nature as a whole, and then the end of everything else on the Earth. This means that the constricting and choking could be the stealing of resources, resulting in the depletion of the inside of the Earth (natural resources being used up).
The crying relates to rain, as they are tears of nature. The stopping of the tears meaning that there will be no reason to cry. During the destruction of nature there will be death, war, loss, and nothing more. In a world so strongly consumed by an individual's own "dog eat dog" ways or even in the simplest discriminative ways, it is likely that humans will go to war for what are easily insignificant reasons.
(we don't all look a people and see humans but some of us see, Pakistanis, blacks, Asians, whites. all of that is truly insignificant... an easy concept that is viewed as a hard concept. Humans are nothing more than humans, and that is how it is for everyone.)
Thus, this song may be about an overindulgent race destroying everything in their path to create what they want and not what they need. This is the ultimate destruction, going beyond self-destruction but also global destruction)